[TenTec] astron blows regulators

[Jim FitzSimons]

I have a astron supply. I hope it never blows.
I have had used it on my Pegasus since I got it in
1999.
Jim W7ANF

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Hoffman" <ghoffman@spacetech.com>
To: "Clark Savage Turner" <csturner@slonet.org>; <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 15:29 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] astron blows regulators


> Clark... I have that exact supply.  Have never blown it in several years
of
> reasonably heavy use.  I don't think that it is inevitable...in other
words
> the design is not inherently bad.  It must be miswired or otherwise goofed
> up to do this so consistently.
>
> 73 de Gary, AA2IZ
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Clark Savage Turner" <csturner@slonet.org>
> To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 10:54 PM
> Subject: [TenTec] astron blows regulators
>
>
> > Curious, I have an RS-35M that keeps blowing the regulator, but it does
> > it after some time of operation....like a day, sometimes a few weeks,
> > then it goes out, supply shuts down.  At first I suspected the little
> > regulator voltage pot, it is cheap, so I shot it with DeOxit and wiggled
> > it, put a new regulator in (the thing is socketed from the last owner, I
> > suppose this has been happening for some time!) - it worked for a couple
> > of weeks, powering transmit / receive cycles just fine.
> >
> > There isn't much on the board, I can't see what could be killing the
> > regulator in there.  I will replace the pot just for good measure (it
> > acted dirty when I set the voltage), but does anyone have any other
> > suggestions?  Ever see this problem?
> >
> > Clark
> > WA3JPG
> >
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